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Tu Anh-Nguyen

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Optimization for machine learning · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Mathematical optimization › large-scale optimization
decomposition methods
0.812024
Learning Generalized Linear Programming Value Functions · NeurIPS 2024
Mathematical optimization
linear programming
0.812024
Learning Generalized Linear Programming Value Functions · NeurIPS 2024
Mathematical optimization › discrete optimization
mixed integer linear programming
0.812024
Learning Generalized Linear Programming Value Functions · NeurIPS 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

neural network · 1.5convex optimization · 1.5
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Learning Generalized Linear Programming Value Functions
abstract
We develop a theoretically-grounded learning method for the Generalized Linear Programming Value Function (GVF), which models the optimal value of a linear programming (LP) problem as its objective and constraint bounds vary. This function plays a fundamental role in algorithmic techniques for large-scale optimization, particularly in decomposition for two-stage mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs). This paper establishes a structural characterization of the GVF that enables it to be modeled as a particular neural network architecture, which we then use to learn the GVF in a way that benefits from three notable properties. First, our method produces a true under-approximation of the value function with respect to the constraint bounds. Second, the model is input-convex in the constraint bounds, which not only matches the structure of the GVF but also enables the trained model to be efficiently optimized over using LP. Finally, our learning method is unsupervised, meaning that training data generation does not require computing LP optimal values, which can be prohibitively expensive at large scales. We numerically show that our method can approximate the GVF well, even when compared to supervised methods that collect training data by solving an LP for each data point. Furthermore, as an application of our framework, we develop a fast heuristic method for large-scale two-stage MILPs with continuous second-stage variables, via a compact reformulation that can be solved faster than the full model linear relaxation at large scales and orders of magnitude faster than the original model.
Tu Anh-Nguyen, Joey Huchette, Christian Tjandraatmadja
NeurIPS1